African Arts articles from September 2001

African Arts archives from September 2001

Twelfth triennial symposium on African art, St. Thomas: a Broadened Scope. (first word).
September 22, 2001... The Triennial Symposium on African Art, organized by the Arts Council of the African Studies Association (ACASA), is the main forum bringing together scholars, educators, museum professionals, and artists whose focus is the visual and...

Going Caribbean.
September 22, 2001... One of the reasons for holding the Triennial in the Virgin Islands was that we were able to schedule it to coincide with the celebration of Carnival in St. Thomas. Because I am a scholar of Caribbean culture, there are certain nonacademic...

Teaching the contemporary: disjunctures and accommodations. (dialogue).(Brief Article)
September 22, 2001... Everyone who actively follows the fortunes of African art in either academic settings or the museum world knows that the boundaries of the field are being revised. Contemporary genres are occupying an ever larger space in our consciousness,...

Museums vs. academe.(Brief Article)
September 22, 2001... Timing and location have been instrumental in my personal involvement with contemporary African art. In 1994, in the midst of an explosion of interest in and debate about this subject, I moved from being a curator of African art at a large,...

Palace Sculptures Of Aboney: History Told on Walls. (books).
September 22, 2001... PALACE SCULPTURES OF ABOMEY History Told on Walls Francesca Pique and Leslie H. Rainer, with contributions by Jerome C. Alladaye, Rachida de Souza-Ayari, and Suzanne Preston Blier Conservation and Cultural Heritage series 3. The Getty...

Reading The Contemporary: African Art from Theory to the Marketplace. (books).
September 22, 2001... READING THE CONTEMPORARY African Art from Theory to the Marketplace Edited by Olu Oguibe and Okwui Enwezor Institute of International Visual Arts, London, and the MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1999. 432 pp., 51 b/w & 19 color...

The Sainsbury African galleries at the British museum.
September 22, 2001... After being housed for nearly thirty years in the Museum of Mankind in Burlington Gardens, the African collection has returned to the British Museum. It is now displayed in purpose-built galleries, sponsored by the Sainsbury Trust and the Henry...

Writing architecture: the mousgoum tolek and cultural self-fashioning at the new fin de siecle.
September 22, 2001... For the past three centuries the Mousgoum have made their home in the flood plains that straddle the border between northern Cameroon and Chad. The Mousgoum and their celebrated house, referred to in Munjuk as tolek (pl. tolekakay), (1) have...

The mirror and the tomb: Africa, museums, and memory.
September 22, 2001... In Michel Tournier's 1987 novel La Goutte d' or (The Golden Droplet), Idris, a Berber shepherd, leaves Tabelbala, his Saharan oasis, in search of a snapshot of himself taken by a blond Parisian female tourist. His journey north to Paris...

Re-dressing history. (Yinka Shonibare).
September 22, 2001... In the fall of 2000 Yinka Shonibare had a solo show at Camden Art Centre, an installation piece in "Intelligence: New British Art" at Tate Britain, and a digital work in the new Welcome Wing of the Science Museum. Suddenly, he seemed to be...

Undressing ethnicity. (Yinka Shonibare).
September 22, 2001... The comfort of knowing which side of the fence you are is being constantly thrown. (Shonibare 1992) ... . his work tricks the mind, by first making it comfortable with its own contradiction, innocence, and ignorance, and then by quickly...

Arts of Africa, Asia, Oceania, and the Americas. (recent exhibitions).
September 22, 2001... ARTS OF AFRICA, ASIA, OCEANIA, AND THE AMERICAS Musee du Louvre, Pavillon des Sessions Paris, France Opened April 2000 Almost twenty years after the inauguration of the Rockefeller Wing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York,...

Clothing and identity. (recent exhibitions).
September 22, 2001... CLOTHING AND IDENTITY Gertrude Posel Gallery University of the Witwatersrand Johannesburg, South Africa February 28, 1998-December 15, 2001 University galleries are sites of instruction where curators can push the conventional...

Tengenenge. (film/video).
September 22, 2001... TENGENENGE Produced by Carola and Torben Rasmussen Mango Productions, Aabenraa, Denmark, 1998. Color video, 24 min. $25. This is the first video on Zimbabwean stone sculpture to focus exclusively on the multiethnic community of...

Nicholas Mukomberanwa. (film/video).
September 22, 2001... NICHOLAS MUKOMBERANWA Produced by Carola and Torben Rasmussen Mango Productions, Aabenraa. Denmark, 2000. Color video, 29 min. $25. These are the only videos to date which provide exclusive documentary reviews of the art and life of...

Talking With Stones Joram Mariga. (film/video).
September 22, 2001... TALKING WITH STONES Joram Mariga Produced by Carola and Torben Rasmussen Mango Productions, Aabenraa. Denmark, 1995. Color video, 29 min. $25. These are the only videos to date which provide exclusive documentary reviews of the art...

Current events.
September 22, 2001... Information subject to change western states (by closing date) MOCHE FINELINE PAINTING OF ANCIENT PERU Through October 21 UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History Los Angeles, CA WOMEN TO WOMEN Weaving Cultures, Shaping History...

The "traditional" panels.(symposium)
September 22, 2001... Attending the Triennial always reminds me of the Igbo proverb about masquerades: you certainly can't stand in one spot and take it all in. The symposium in St. Thomas promised to be especially frenzied. Not only were there five or six panels...

We be tourists: museum and outreach days.
September 22, 2001... The roof, the roof, the roof is on fire! We don't have no water, let the whole thing burn! "Tear Down De Roof" Jam Band, 2001 An astonishing fact: each and every day of the year, the population of St. Thomas swells by 33%. The source...

Relating the past to the present.(Brief Article)
September 22, 2001... Sidney Kasfir notes that the groundbreaking work of African curators and critics in recent years has brought contemporary African art into the limelight, making it a viable field of study. Yet most current professors, curators, and critics of...

The boundaries of the field.(Brief Article)
September 22, 2001... The fact that "the boundaries of the field are being revised" is the first really significant evolutionary change to occur since the inception of the discipline of African art history in the early 1960s. We're not in the midst of a crisis;...

The more things change ...(Brief Article)(Letter to the Editor)
September 22, 2001... I really don't think things have changed as much as we might fear. Africanists have always been more interested in exploring new and undiscovered intellectual terrain than have scholars and students in other disciplines or areas of art history....

Wehmeyer's article on the Indian image in New Orleans altars the Caribbean connection.
September 22, 2001... In analyzing the version of Spiritism practiced in New Orleans, most authors have neglected to look to the Caribbean and farther south for vital parallels and possible influences. (1) Such is the case with Stephen Wehmeyer in his article...

Response to Bettelheim.(Judith Bettelheim)
September 22, 2001... Judith Bettelheim raises some interesting questions in response to my article on the Indian altars of the Spiritual Church. The purpose of the initial article was to fill a significant lacuna in the existing scholarship on the Spiritual...

About "publishing Africa".(Brief Article)(Letter to the Editor)
September 22, 2001... The personal odyssey of Steven Nelson in the world of publishing ("Publishing Africa," African Arts [First Word], Spring 2001, p. 1) is a recycling of complaints voiced by writers of "academic articles" in peer-reviewed journals. These are...